US Authoritarianism

If AA helped you, I’m glad it did. But there’s no science behind it and AA’s success rate is between 5 and 10 percent. It does help some people mainly because it’s a form of group therapy.

And rehab and treatment has an even lower success rate. Turns out we don't really know how to fix addiction. It's really a cultural thing and we can't put a bandaid with a little bit of therapy.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/alcoholics-anonymous-most-effective-path-to-alcohol-abstinence.html

From what I've seen AA / NA is at least as effective as other treatments, some research indicates it's more effective, and considering the fact that it's free compared to thousands of dollars minimum for any kind of treatment you're looking at a massive price delta

NA helped me get clean from heroin and at no point did anybody push religion and everyone made it clear the language is like that cause it was written a long time ago in a different time. They encourage people to take what they can use and throw away the rest.